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   <dc:title>Improving bounds on the order of regular graphs of girth 5</dc:title>
   <dc:creator>Abajo Casado, Encarnación</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Balbuena Martínez, Maria Camino Teófila</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Bendala García, Manuel Francisco</dc:creator>
   <dc:creator>Marcote Ordax, Francisco Javier</dc:creator>
   <dc:contributor>Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Civil i Ambiental</dc:contributor>
   <dc:contributor>Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. COMBGRAPH - Combinatòria, Teoria de Grafs i Aplicacions</dc:contributor>
   <dc:subject>Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Matemàtica discreta::Combinatòria</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Equacions diferencials i integrals</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Combinatorial analysis</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Differential equations, Elliptic</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Small regular graphs</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Cage</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Girth</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Amalgam</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Elliptic semiplane</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Combinacions (Matemàtica)</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Equacions diferencials el·líptiques</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Classificació AMS::05 Combinatorics::05E Algebraic combinatorics</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Classificació AMS::35 Partial differential equations::35J Partial differential equations of elliptic type</dc:subject>
   <dc:description>© 2019. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/</dc:description>
   <dc:description>A -graph is a -regular graph with girth and a -cage is a -graph with the fewest possible number of vertices . Constructing -cages and determining the order are both very hard problems. For this reason, an intensive line of research is devoted to constructing smaller -graphs than previously known ones, providing in this way new upper bounds to each time such a graph is constructed. The paper focuses on girth , where cages are known only for degrees . We construct -graphs using and extending techniques of amalgamation into the incidence graphs of elliptic semiplanes of type introduced and exposed by Funk (2009). The order of these graphs provides better upper bounds on than those known so far, for values of such that either or.</dc:description>
   <dc:description>Peer Reviewed</dc:description>
   <dc:description>Postprint (author's final draft)</dc:description>
   <dc:date>2019-10-01</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Article</dc:type>
   <dc:identifier>Abajo, E. [et al.]. Improving bounds on the order of regular graphs of girth 5. "Discrete mathematics", 1 Octubre 2019, vol. 342, núm. 10, p. 2900-2910.</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>0012-365X</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331475501_Improving_bounds_on_the_order_of_regular_graphs_of_girth_5</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/2117/184869</dc:identifier>
   <dc:identifier>10.1016/j.disc.2019.02.007</dc:identifier>
   <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
   <dc:relation>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012365X19300627</dc:relation>
   <dc:rights>Open Access</dc:rights>
   <dc:format>11 p.</dc:format>
   <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
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